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August 27, 2014

BREATH-- a powerful tool

You have an extremely powerful tool at your disposal to remove any anxiety from your mind and body-- it is your Breath.
As long you keep observing your breath coming in and going out, any problem ceases being a problem.It may be even our stammering. The technique is, you cannot focus completely on your breath and worry about your problem at the same time.
Try it. It woks.
Have a nice day.

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Yes absolutely right. Breath is only tool to control so many activities which is out of our control. Another article on breath by Sri M (mumtaj ali, writer of autobiography -apprenticed with Himalayan master) :Breath - key to body and mindThe body has no intelligence of its own,except the autonomous nervoussystem, which does bodily functions likedigestion that we have no control over.What do we do after eating ? We justput food into our mouth and after thatwe do nothing . Do we say “Now comeon, pull this acid out, put that in,nothing; it happens on its own”.So something is looking after us.Although we think, we have full controlover our lives. 75 to 80 percent of ourlives is run by the unconscious part ofour brain or mind or whatever you wantto call it. We can chew food, that’s it, ifthe esophagus loses the ability toswallow, we can’t even swallow –that’s also connected to theautonomous nervous system, theperistaltic system.So what is it that we actually control?Circulation - we have no control. Heart- we have no control, it is beating fromthe time we are inside the womb till itdecides to stop. Breathing – we haveno control. Do we get up in the morningand say start breathing? And when itstops, it stops – we can’t say don’t stop– since we are not there. What you willnotice is amongst all these things,breath is one thing which has a uniquecharacteristic. It is normally not underour control but we can bring it underour control to some extent. Normallybreathing is automatic but if we want,we can exert some control over it. Wecan start breathing slowly, hold it forsome time, and exhale slowly. Breath isthe only nutrition of our body which wecan bring under our control and it is themost important nutrition. You can livewithout food, water for many days butnot much without breathing. So we havean important key to reach that whichcontrols our whole system – that is thebreath.Breath is a very important link to theinner being, your inner consciousness. Ifyou can become aware of your breathconstantly, then slowly you can becomeaware of That which does all thesethings in us. It is a very good link. Infact it is the only link.Keep watching your breath as youbreathe, be aware of your breath. Verysoon you become the breath that iscoming in and going out. Then you mayrealize that there is this whole BigBreath which is going on in the cosmoswhich is a part of you or you are a partof that.Puranas say when the Brahmanbreathes in, all the cosmos is gone, andwhen he breathes out, a new creation isborn.by: Sri M

Thanks Hemant for such a beautiful elaboration on pure breath. Rightly said it is only breath which can be controlled to some extent , which in turn helps to control the mind. Our mind is the main culprit responsible for craving and aversions resulting in various miseries of life. Ultimately we can achieve salvation by taming our mind only. Now to be a mental slave or a mental master, the choice is Ours.

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